The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has moved to overhaul the H-1B work visa selection process, replacing the long-standing random lottery with a system that gives preference to higher-paid ...

H-1B work visa selection update: In a matter of bad news for the Indians willing to go to the US for work purposes, the Trump Administration has announced sweeping changes to the H-1B work visa ...

One spring afternoon, I received a call from my mom. My dad was facing an issue with his phone, specifically with a PDF that wouldn’t open. Despite the native office suite supporting PDFs on his ...

A key White House office has approved a proposed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule that could fundamentally change how H-1B visas are assigned, moving away from the long-standing random ...

ABSTRACT: An algorithm is being developed to conduct a computational experiment to study the dynamics of random processes in an asymmetric Markov chain with eight discrete states and continuous time.

The outcome of quantum experiments is intrinsically unpredictable. Now physicists have combined that feature with blockchain techniques to generate random numbers in a fully transparent process for ...

“A Random Walk Down Wall Street” is a best-selling book and investment guide by Burton G. Malkiel. Malkiel is a celebrated American economist who graduated with an MBA from Harvard University and a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important ...

Will a certain tritium atom decay by a certain time? According to our current science, this question concerning physical phenomena should be answered by sampling from a probability distribution, a ...

Random processes take place all around us. It rains one day but not the next; stocks and bonds gain and lose value; traffic jams coalesce and disappear. Because they’re governed by numerous factors ...

In the real world, probability is a tough thing to characterize. If I roll a die, what does it mean to say that it has a one-sixth chance of coming up 5? We say that the outcome is random because we ...